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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *方* | 方* | *方
square / power or involution (math.) / upright / honest / fair and square / direction / side / party (to a contract, dispute etc) / place / method / prescription (medicine) / just when / only or just / classifier for square things / abbr. for square or cubic meter
HSK 4
public square; plaza
HSK 2
square (as in square foot, square mile, square root)
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *格* | 格* | *格
square / frame / rule / (legal) case / style / character / standard / pattern / (grammar) case / (classical) to obstruct / to hinder / (classical) to arrive / to come / (classical) to investigate / to study exhaustively
HSK 7-9
square meter
HSK 6
to square accounts (between borrower and lender or between buyer and seller)
Trafalgar Square (London)
cube; block; square / diamond ♦ (in card games)
prescription / cooking recipe / formulation / completing the square (to solve quadratic equation, math.)
Tiananmen Square
to face squarely; to meet head on; to face up to
HSK 7-9
lit. compass and set square / fig. established standard / rule / customs / practices / fig. upright and honest / well-behaved
HSK 7-9
least squares (math.)
completing the square (method of solving quadratic equation, math.)
square (i.e. x times x)
inverse square law (physics)
displaying strength and discipline / impressive / upright and frank / square
old-fashioned square table to seat eight people
square brackets [ ]
compasses, set square, spirit level and plumbline (idiom); fig. established standard / norms / criteria
set square / triangle (for drawing right angles)
root mean square (RMS) / quadratic root
to follow the compass and go with the set square (idiom); to follow the rules inflexibly / to act according to convention
square kilometer
(hitting) squarely in the middle / (slicing) across the middle / to hold by the waist
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *坪* | 坪* | *坪
a plain / ping, unit of area equal to approx. 3.3058 square meters (used in Japan and Taiwan)
square / square-shaped
square zhang (i.e. unit of area 10 feet square) / monastic room 10 feet square / Buddhist or Daoist abbot / abbot's chamber
square brackets [ ]
Red Square (in Moscow)
square-shaped formation (military) / phalanx / (math.) matrix
checked pattern / square box character (in Chinese text) indicating an illegible character
square
a set square (carpenter's tool)
Madison Square Garden
starting point / square one / (coordinate geometry) origin
lit. to set up a separate kitchen (idiom); to start from scratch / back to square one / to start of on a new path
lit. like a square peg in a round hole (idiom) / fig. incompatible
Monument to the People's Heroes, at Tiananmen Square
square root
Times Square
square meter (abbr. for 平方米)
square dancing, an exercise routine performed to music in public squares, parks and plazas, popular esp. among middle-aged and retired women in China
lattice / check (pattern of squares)
compasses, set square and straight line marker (idiom); fig. established standard / norms / criteria
steel set square (tool to measure right angles)
(measurement) (after a length) square (as in "10 feet square")
square cun (Chinese unit of area: 1 cun × 1 cun, or 3⅓ cm × 3⅓ cm) / heart / mind
square face
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *圭* | 圭* | *圭
jade tablet, square at the base and rounded or pointed at the top, held by the nobility at ceremonies / sundial / (ancient unit of volume) a tiny amount; a smidgen; a speck
to look squarely at / to look straight ahead / (instrumentation) heads-up (display)
to follow the compass and go with the set square (idiom); to follow the rules inflexibly / to act according to convention
to collect data and square up; to settle accounts
square roof
squared paper / graph paper / grid paper (manuscript paper with squares for Chinese characters)
square headed nut
to reset to zero / (fig.) to start again from scratch; to go back to square one
square foot (unit of area equal to 0.093 m²)
T-square / set square (carpenter's tool)
chi-square (math.)
square castle / mahjong layout (with the tiles laid out as a square)
round coin with a square hole in the middle, used in former times in China
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *罾* | 罾* | *罾
large square net
square-jawed face
(coll., humorous) money (so named because in former times, Chinese coins had a square hole in the middle)
square kilometer
method of least squares (math.) (Tw)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *枋* | 枋* | *枋
Santalum album / square wooden pillar
to eat three square meals a day and do no work (idiom) / to be sated with food and remain idle
to square off / to exchange blows / to rain blows on sb
square headed
a set square (carpenter's tool)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *笥* | 笥* | *笥
square bamboo container for food or clothing
overly conservative / old-fashioned / old fogey / a square
lapis lazuli (mineral of the square albite family)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *枓* | 枓* | *枓
(architecture) square wooden bearing block used to support a bracket in a dougong 斗拱 bracket system
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *矩* | 矩* | *矩
carpenter's square / rule / regulation / pattern / to carve
copying paper (with printed model characters and blank squares for writing practice)
copper coin (round with a square hole in the middle, used in former times in China)
clear and square / neat / square (person)
set square (tool to measure right angles)
miter square (tool to measure angles)
square dance (traditional American dance)
If the basin is square, the water in it will also be square. (idiom)
Trafalgar Square (London)
four-square box in which one practices writing a Chinese character
set square (tool to measure right angles)
to settle (an account) / to square up
white square character ( □ ), used to represent a missing ideograph
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *螓* | 螓* | *螓
small cicada with a square head
mean square
square-shaped
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *轸* | 轸* | *轸
square / strongly (as of emotion)
(of a square shape, such as a house plan) to have a corner missing / (fig.) to lack something / missing piece
Madison Square Garden
(bird species of China) square-tailed drongo-cuckoo (Surniculus lugubris)
to have a square meal
(oral) to write (esp. for a living) / to spell out laboriously on squared paper
inverse-square law (physics)
(Tw) a square sheet of pastry, typically pan-fried and served with savory fillings or sweet jam

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